What is our class blog?
Our class blog is a way for us to share our ideas and our learning with other people. Sharing our learning means it is very important that we understand how to use the blog and the internet in a secure way.
This ties in with National Curriculum objectives and ICT Key Skills that the children are expected to learn and apply.
The following guidelines have been established to ensure the safety of our pupils when blogging. The guidelines are also reminders of how to use the blog to improve writing and keyboarding skills.
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Student work will only be identified by first names. All comments should have first names only.
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Any photos of students on the blog will be anonymous without any names connected to them and any children for whom permission is not received will not have images posted to the blog.
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Parents who leave comments are asked not to use last names either. (Please post comments as “Faye’s Mum” or “Jack’s Nan”, etc.)
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All comments submitted have to be approved by Mr. Maloney before they are included on the blog. Inappropriate comments will not be approved and anyone who does write inappropriately will be reprimanded by Mr Maloney or Mrs Gomersall.
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Proof-read your comments carefully. Pupils should have a family member check for spelling mistakes before submitting a comment. This is especially important with infant children, who can practise their phonetic awareness (spelling strategies) through adult support when writing.
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As a general rule, only Mr. Maloney has access to post things on the blog. Unless alternative arrangements have been agreed by the class (such as once children are more conifident with the blog and they will be encouraged to write blog entries) they will go through edits and revisions before Mr Maloney posts them.
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Do not leave comments as a means of communicating with friends in the style of a ‘chatroom’. Please post positively and always remember that the blog is an extension of our school that the rest of the world is able to see.
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